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Wed, Jan 23, 13 at 10:02
| I am trying to plan a garden from scratch and am hoping to limit all of the plants to varieties available before 1900. Sometimes I can find mention of introduction dates in catalogs but not always. Might there be some sort of plant registry or am |
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| The Green Bean article in Wikipedia references this: Taylor's guide to heirloom vegetables. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1996. ISBN 0-395-70818-4. Google has snippits of it, but I haven't seen the book in the whole. |
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- Posted by fusion_power 7b (My Page) on Thu, Jan 24, 13 at 3:55
| Beans of New York Corn of New York These sow up sometimes on Ebay or you might still be able to order a copy from Cornell. They were printed in the 1930's and have lots of info about varieties and history. DarJones |
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